How I Landed an Internship Without an Interview (Ep. 65)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Plus, I've got 7 tips from my experience getting hired that you can use to increase your own chances of getting a great internship or job. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: TechRepublic BOFH series The Four-Hour Workweek The Internship Experience - a journal of sorts I kept on the blog during my internship 97 Actions You Should Take to Become THE Person Companies Want to Hire Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hello buddy and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:47.0	And today I'm doing another car episode as you can probably tell from audio quality, but yeah, these are fun so you know what hopefully you like
0:54.8	it because I like to do them it's fun to talk while driving and I'm just pulling away
0:58.6	from my house right now head down to Des Moines to do some work and today I'm actually going to talk about how I was able
1:07.1	to land an internship at a Fortune 500 company without an interview actually. So without an interview. interview means they called me up and they decided to hire me without even interviewing me.
1:19.0	Application was all they needed and I was in.
1:22.0	So we're going to recount the sequence of events that led to this cool event.
1:28.0	And also I'm going to boil down the experience into seven I think tips for how you can
1:37.2	recreate something similar or at least increase your chances of getting an
1:41.6	internship.
1:43.0	So that is what we got in store today.
1:46.6	And you can find show notes for this episode, which I believe is 65, at CIG Podcast. As as always scroll right down the page until you find the box that has this
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